Businesses are very, very sad because the National Labor Relations Board did not tip the balance of workplace power toward them even further when it ruled for faster union elections..
Yesterday's decision by National Labor Relations Board general counsel Richard Griffin declaring corporations joint employers of the workers in their franchises is a big, big deal. Couple of key rundowns.
This is a very big day for college athletes seeking the right to unionize: The director of the National Labor Relations Board's Chicago district ruled today that Northwestern football players.
The NLRB simply does not work for private sector labor. The long appeals and lack of meaningful punishment for corporate violations means that employers can engage in open intimidation of.
Although I would have rather seen the filibuster destroyed for presidential appointments, it's a relatively minor victory for Democrats that the Republicans caved on the seven nominations. Some politicos are.
Josh Eidelson has an important piece at The Nation reminding us of the National Labor Relations Board's vital importance for workers, an especially important issue given its extremely tenuous lifeline.
